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[So we've been stuck on the poison moon for a couple months now, so a lot of people probably want to get away from that.

Unfortunately, the only place you really can get away from it besides your own ship is the Iskaulit. So, here's a June Iskaulit mingle!]

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[wryly] I'll let you know when I decide on a word for it. My world just learned about what we are as a whole.

[He is very glad that Asgard as a whole never knew what he was. That would have been even more untenable.]

And how has that gone for you?

[a shrug. It had only been a month, and then they were brought here]

I haven't been watching to find out. I've been busy.

[He laughs softly.]

Then it can't have been too bad thus far, or you wouldn't have been able to ignore it.

[he huffs a little]

Or I'm tired of seeing my face on the television. There's more important things to worry about, aside from what the world thinks of me like this.

If a bit of television is the worst you get, you shall be lucky indeed.

I'll be incredibly thankful if that's all it is.

[who knows who else there thinks along the same lines as Bolivar Trask]

You did not strike me as the sort particularly enamored with war. So why this?[The obstacle course indicated with a tilt of the head.]

I'm not. [he says with a nod, confirming. He hates fighting. He hates war even more. But he shrugs and with a wry tone:] But I like to be prepared, just in case. So - [he gestures to the course]

Do you prepare your mind as well as your body?

I'm . . . not sure what you mean.

You may train all you like, until you've built battle into your muscles. But if your mind gets in the way of it, you shall still hesitate.

Hesitation is generally a bad idea.

[he can't help but frown a little, but it's more thoughtful than anything]

That - I know that much.

I wouldn't hesitate. Not when it comes to what I want to protect.

Yet you do not want battle.

Though I have noticed that the reluctant warrior is rather lionized in the stories of your people. That is not so, from whence I come.

[with a huff]

Some of the stories are, and there are others that aren't. But I'm no warrior - I'm just - me.

If you go to war, you are a warrior. Whether you like it or not.

[he smiles a bit wryly]

We're going to have to agree to disagree, then.

[Loki laughs.] And they say I am the liar.

I'm not lying. [a shrug] I've never been to war. Battle, maybe - if you want to look at it that way.

Life is war, when others can look at you and see you are unlike them.

[a little dryly] A couple of months ago I might've agreed with that.

Is it like that on Asgard? [he tilts his head] Is that why you think that way?

And what has changed, since?

[He shrugs carelessly.] Asgardians are a warrior race. Your stories got that right, I believe.

Another world. [he shrugs a shoulder, glancing away briefly] A chance to change our future. There's a lot of things happened that made me rethink how I view it.

[a smile] Yes, but that doesn't answer my question, Loki. I'm familiar with the stories.

No future is set. Surely you know that.

[He smiles back.] Don't be absurd, Hank. Do I look like a warrior to you?

I know that now. But the one we were moving towards was . . . bad.

[it was so bad they had to send someone back in time to try and fix it. #MutantLife]

If I'm a warrior, you certainly are. [he huffs, but it's good-natured]